Nilanjana Dasgupta
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Yale University
Chancellor's medal from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Nilanjana 'Buju' Dasgupta | |
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| Alma mater | Smith College Yale University |
| Awards | Application of Personality and Social Psychology Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Chancellor's medal from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | social psychology |
| Thesis | Pigments of the imagination : the role of perceived skin color in stereotype maintenance and exacerbation (1998) |
| Website | Research website |
Nilanjana Dasgupta is a social psychologist whose work focuses on the effects of social contexts on implicit stereotypes - particularly on factors that insulate women in STEM fields from harmful stereotypes which suggest that females perform poorly in such areas. Dasgupta is a professor of Psychology and is the Director of the Institute of Diversity Sciences and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.[1]
Prior to joining the Psychology faculty at the University of Massachusetts in 2003,[2] Dasgupta (b. 1969) received an A.B. from Smith College in 1992 in Psychology with a minor in Neuroscience.[2] In 1998, she received a PhD in Psychology from Yale University.[2] Dasgupta then became a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle and, afterward, an assistant professor at the New School for Social Research from 1999 to 2002.[2]
At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Dasgupta has served in several leadership roles and earned awards for her service to the university. In 2005-2006 Dasgupta was A Lilly Teaching fellow[3] and 2006-7 she was a Family Research Scholar[4] at UMass Amherst. From 2014 to 2020 she served as the Director of Faculty Equity and Inclusion in the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.[5] Dasgupta is co-PI of an NSF Advance program that seeks to transforms the campus by cultivating faculty equity, inclusion and success at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[6] In 2019 Dasgupta was recognized by the College of Natural Sciences at UMass Amherst for Excellence in Diversity & Inclusion.[7]
Dasgupta has held several leadership positions in national and international professional societies. She is serving on the National Science Foundation's Advisory Committee for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (2015–17).[8] She is an elected member of the executive committee of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and was elected to be President of the society in 2017.[9] Dr. Dasgupta serves on the Training Committee of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology,[10] and on the steering committee of the International Social Cognition Network.[11] Dasgupta was an elected member of the council of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (2012–14).[12]
